Some farms cut all of the p-stem and all of the roots off to store corms . They look just like the EE corms stacked in bins at the nurseries . I posted a link to this a while back :
Ensete Maurelii propagation? - Bananas.org
They may plant these as is or quarter them and sometimes cut out the apical meristem and place the corm upside down on top of the soil .